Tag: Writing
If the Romance Writers of America can implode over racism, no...
Christine Larson, University of Colorado Boulder
Over the past month, Romance Writers of America, one of the country’s largest writing associations, with over 9,000 members,...
I wrote a book about email – and found myself pining...
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
Email has become so prevalent in our lives that I felt compelled to write about it for a Bloomsbury series...
One skill that doesn’t deteriorate with age
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
When Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5, the world lost one of its most influential literary voices.
But Morrison wasn’t...
Did a censored female writer inspire Hemingway’s famous style?
Cynthia Wachtell, Yeshiva University
Virtually everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. But you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who knows of Ellen N. La Motte.
People...
‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ still speaks to nation’s racial discord,...
Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Most memoirs are soon forgotten.
A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,”...
It’s time for a new approach to travel
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
When I overcame a flying phobia, I resolved to make up for lost time by visiting as much of the...
Writing’s power to deceive
Andrew Elfenbein, University of Minnesota
When I was researching and writing my new book, “The Gist of Reading,” I wanted to explore long-held assumptions about...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
